Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-05-26
EDITOR O'BRIEN
IN CANADA.
HE is MOBBED !
DISGRACEFUL SCENES IN THE
STREETS OF TORONTO.
orangemen on the Rampage.
The Irish Patriot and His Party Mar
rOwly Escape Death.
rH n
orangemen on the Rampage.
Fleeing For Their Lives.

CHICAGO, May 1.-THE Very Rev
Dean Carmichael, of st. George:
Church, Montreal, who is at present
visiting in this city, was asked by re.
porter how Editor O'Brien's mission tC
Canada was looked on i'm Montreal. =
He said: ~ know very little about the
real feeling there, but from observation
should judge that the mission had
fallen fiat. The respectable Irish CathO.
lies were evidently far from enthusias.
tic over the affair, and l think | am
right in saying that Father O'Dowd
the leading Irish Catholic clergyman,
was utterly opposed to Mr.. O'Brien's
visit under the circumstances.
"Mr. O'Brien's meeting was held in
the Old Zion Church, which only holds
700 or 800, and was told by one who
was there that the building was not
more than half full.
"The reason for the lack of interest
shown by his own countrymen seems
simple to me, but, of course, / cannot
speak with authority. The Irish
Canadians are a most loyal people. No
doubt they would be glad to see Ire
land obtain home rule in the way Isaac
Butt advocated it-that is, giving Ire
land just the same constitutional liberty
that Canada enjoys. The Irish-Cana-
dians know the advantages of their
own system, and would doubtless be
disciples of Butts method for Ireland.
But the present agitation carried on in
the name of Home Rule, certainly
does not receive the cordial support of
the best element among Irish-C -Canadi-
ans.
"No matter how favorable the Irish
Protestants in Canada might be to this
limited home rule, they do not wish to
call themselves home rulers since the
name has SO degenerated. TO be a
home ruler under present conditions
means to be an out-and-out sympa-
thizer with the methods and agitation
of the present Irish leaders, and these
they naturally repudiate."
O'BRTEN's RECEPTION AT TORONTO.
TORONTO, May 17.-Mr. O'Brien was
greeted by an immence throng, when
he arrived here this morning. A long
address of welcome was read.
Mr.. O'Brien replied as follows, amid
tremendous cheering:
'MR. MULLIGAN AND GENTLEMEN
l assure you that not for the first time,
nor the tiftieth time, since came to
Canada, my heart has been overfiowing
with gratitude for the wonderful way
in which our fellow-countrymen in
Canada have steered Kilbride and my
self in difficulty and trial. If we We're
to live hundred years we could never
forget it for you, nor ever forget you
for the way in which you risked the
risks and dangers you had to face in
siding with us against thatgreat power
full man who has left hundreds of poor
men, women and children, homeless
far away in Ireland in Luggacurran,-
Loud cheers, boots and groans.1 /
cannot express my sense of the way in
which our excited fellow countrymen
have behaved in this mission. Cheers
and groans.] If the London Times had
its way it would be literally treason to
love us and death to defend. Thank
God the London Times is not going to
have its way here, Groans for the
TInees] in Toronto, nor anywhere else
much longer. [Great cheering and
some boots and Kisses.
people have displayed in this matter,
I need not say that do not refer to
mere threats of personal violence or at
tacks, because I take it for granted that
on this free soil of Canada, at this time
of the day, no citizen of Canada is going
to attempt to intimidate us by wild
threats, or by tiourishing revolvers, or
by branishing anything of that sort in
our faces. Cheers and some hoots.
"Our countrymen in Canada have
had much more serious and substantial
social and political risks than that to
face in taking our part and arraying
themselves with us against the power
full influences which are against us in
Canada to-day.
"It is easy enough and cheap enough
to find summer friends, but this is a
matter which tests to the core the sim
cerity and sympathy of our people in
Canada in their love of Ireland. (Cheers
and applause. The old instincts of
your Irish hearts burst through every
difficulty and danger to be with us in
our struggle in behalf of the poor and
oppressed. Loud cheers and some
boots.
"God bless you and God prosper you
for the good will the whole Canadian
people have shown, [cheers] for the
fair play they have given me. Re-
newed cheers. The more this subject
is argued out In a reasonable way by
reasonable men. and by intelligent and
liberty-loving men, the more will the
stamp of pnblic condemnation and rep.
rotation be put upon LansdOwne's un-
just action, loud cheers and some
hootsl and the sooner will the poor
people of Luggacurran return once
more to their humble homes IN peace
and triumph, with blessings on your
heads" Loud and prolonged cheers,
mingled with some boots and hisses.]
TORONTO, May 1S.-Disgraceful
scenes were enacted in Toronto this
evening and the threat of the Orange
men to assassinate Hon. William
O'Brien came very near being carried
into execution. At one time It looked
very much as if the distinguished visi-
tor would fall
A VICTIM TO THE MOB's FURY.
At 8 o'clock President J. A. Mulligan
of the local branch of the national
league called at the hotel and asked
Mr.. O'Brien to go out and have walk.
D. P. Cahill, Dennis Killbride, the
evicted tenant, and j. M. Wall, special
correspondent of the N. Y Tribune,
were present and suggested that 1t
would not be prudent to venture out as
darkness had fallen and a crowd of
about two hundred rowdies had gather
ed around the hotel, kissing, hooting